Posted on 03/16/2016 2:03:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
Looks like a primate’s hands.
A direct descendant of the dwarf sits in the oval orifice.
Thanks Red Badger. Hi ho, Hi ho ping!
Vanishing Leprechaun:
http://www.google.com/search?q=vanishing+leprechaun&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
What has it got in its pocketses?
Excellent quote, but possibly inappropriate for this post.
Partial skeletons of 15 individuals were found.
Apparently, it's the largest group of pre-homo sapiens ever found in one place.
Another new one. So cool!
When you read the whole article you discover that there were multiple bones and skulls of a total of 15 individuals. They were in South Africa, nowhere near the “Hobbits”. THe weirdness is the combination of very primitave traits and rather modern traits. Below is a fascinating story of how the discoverer hired 6 small, thin, female anthropologists to crawl through the very small passage and extract all these bones.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/09/homo-naledi-rising-star-cave-hominin/404362/
.......and red haired?................
15 individuals skeletons...............
So Aristotle’s saying that “Man is a political animal” means that “Man is an animal infested with many ticks.”
if we think of it as mankind being infested with many blood sucking parasites of the political nature then he was spot on! Consider as a representation of Greek politicians of the time Alcibiades. He was a contemporary of Socrates who was mentor to Plato who was in turn mentor to Aristotle so the era is more or less right. Alcibiades is a perfect example of the consummate political opportunist. He rose in Athens to high office but when he fell out of vogue there he ran off to their worst enemy Sparta and rose to high position there. But he couldnt keep his hands off the king's wife so he had to flee to their worst enemy Persia where again, he rose in politics. Then eventually he worked his way back to Athens until they exiled him yet again.
So here is the ultimate Greek politician and what a parasite! Q.E.D.
Red Badger: "Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa"
Homo? maybe.
Human? certainly not.
At 2.8 million years old these creatures were on the border-line between our classification genus Australopithecus and genus homo which includes us.
So, Homo naledi were certainly hominins, but just as certainly not Humans.
See here for a list of genus Homo species, their ages and numbers of fossils found for each.
Yes, it’s the motivation to find a true “missing link” that encourages such sloppy language. “Ooh, look, a human with all these monkey like traits!”. Hold on there, pump the brakes on that “human” stuff.
I find it amazing that these bones lay undisturbed for nearly 3 million years..................................
Aristotle said that “History is what Alcibiades did and what happened to him.”
No-both are blonde-one is from London and the other originally from someplace in Canada-they are both met their husbands via the military.
Being Irish isn’t required for red hair, Red Badger-I have red hair-so do two of my mom’s siblings and several of my 1st cousins-we are of Hispanic/Latino ancestry...
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